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Weak Dative Case In Norwegian Dialect Syntax
Author(s) -
Åfarli Tor A.,
Fjøsne Eldfrid Haaker
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2012.01187.x
Subject(s) - dative case , norwegian , linguistics , generative grammar , grammar , syntax , computer science , philosophy
. A remarkable fact about dative case in Norwegian dative dialects is that it bears all the marks of being a non‐structural (lexical, inherent) case as to the nature of its in situ generation, but still it is not preserved under A‐movement, which makes it a structural case according to the favoured diagnostic tests in generative grammar. We discuss the relevant data and argue that dative case in Norwegian should be classified as what we call a weak non‐structural case. Furthermore, we hypothesize that accusative and dative are more alike than previously thought, both being non‐structural cases, and in a development of Woolford (2006) we propose that all cases that are licensed inside vP should be counted as lexical or inherent non‐structural cases.